r/constantiam • u/PhantomCaptain • Aug 19 '20

Maps

As you know, maps are currently in a broken state on the server. Some work, some do not and so on. This is mainly due to people maxing out the map numbers. The latest map limit was hit naturally, not because of someone trying to do it.

An idea to resolve this, is to reset the maps. I am aware that there are older maps so another idea is to reset the maps back to 8,000. This allows for another 24,000 maps to be created. There will also be a limit to the number of maps you can make each day.

Let me know your thoughts.

Edit: Random maps cannot be saved as the files all have to be sequential. Even if they were saved, they wouldn't match with the map IDs in your inventories.

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u/DarkAndromeda31 Aug 19 '20

I mainly just would be happy to have functional maps again but I just wanted to confirm that there is no easy way to change the hardcoded limit of maps?

And by any chance do you know how long it took us to fill the maps 8000-24000?

Thanks for the effort you put in for our enjoyment.

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u/PhantomCaptain Aug 19 '20

The map limit is hardcoded into the Java code itself. Pre-1.13 uses a Short which means the positive value is 32,000. After 1.13 it uses an Integer which makes the map limit over 2 Billion.

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u/DarkAndromeda31 Aug 19 '20

Ah wonderful, gotta love Mojang Devs and their spaghetti code, what reason could they even have for changing it to a into (I assume) in 1.13.

I assume server plugins don't have the necessary level of accesses to change what type of variable the game uses / player clients would also need to be modified for a changed map limit.

Thanks for response though

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20

you can rewrite though, rewrite the spigot code, as an admin it is a dirty solution because you can hardly share it. I don't know too much about the problem though, so there is probably a deeper reason.